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[Hiring] Lead Data Architect @Nerdery
Mar 22, 2025 - Nerdery is hiring a remote Lead Data Architect. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: USA.
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Role Description
The Lead Data Architect is a customer-facing, hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role is pivotal in helping our customers leverage technology and data to drive efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.
- Mentor and guide a team of data engineers, senior engineers, principals, and analysts.
- Ensure best practices in data strategy, analytics, governance, security, and performance optimization.
- Develop proof-of-concept (POC) and prototypes that validate cutting-edge GCP solutions.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud data engineering, and analytics solutions.
- 7+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Proven ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and drive data strategy & governance.
- Strong experience in defining conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Extensive experience in ETL/ELT, real-time data streaming, and big data processing frameworks.
- Strong experience in pre-sales support, client engagement, and solution architecture for data platforms.
- Proven ability to engage with clients, understand their business requirements, and translate them into technical solutions.
- Experience managing data-related projects from inception to completion.
- Deep knowledge of data security, compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.), and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex data concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Core GCP Data Services: BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB, Memorystore.
- Data Integration & ETL: Cloud Dataflow (Apache Beam), Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), Datastream (CDC).
- Analytics: BigQuery, CloudSQL, Looker & Looker Studio, Connected Sheets, Pub/Sub.
- Preferred but not required: Bigtable, Firestore.
- Data Engineering Fundamentals: ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time data streaming, big data processing frameworks.
- Data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), data governance, security, and compliance.
Benefits
- Engage with executive stakeholders and technical teams to translate business requirements into scalable GCP solutions.
- Gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities, and design cloud adoption strategies.
- Develop and deliver compelling POCs and prototypes showcasing the value of BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataflow, and other GCP Data technologies.
- Lead collaborative workshops and project meetings to ensure successful solution deployment.
- Design and implement cost-effective and secure end-to-end cloud analytics solutions.
Innovation & Prototyping
- Be a core member of Nerdery’s Technical Tiger Team, rapidly prototyping and validating data architectures.
- Optimize data engineering pipelines, ensuring performance at scale.
What Skills Will Help You Be A Successful Nerd?
- Strong communication skills: Able to effectively explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
- Process improvement: Experienced in identifying process pain-points and taking ownership of refining processes to completion.
- Collaborative Problem Solver: Able to take initiative to understand a problem and make critical decisions to solve for next actionable steps.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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Mar 22, 2025
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